... On Sunday morning, a murder of a very atrocious character was perpetrated near St Helens. The victim was a man between 55 and 60 years of age, named Adam Mather, a collier, residing with his wife and son in a cottage in a lonely spot known as Greenleach, St Helen's district On Saturday night the old man and wife went to bed at the usual hour, and the son not having then returned home, the back ...

... FOREIGN In the Austrian Parliament, the principles of re- hciout liberty make progress. It is proposed to ?? civil marriages, to emancipate schools from ti e control -- c Church, aud to make all re_m. ns equal in the eye of the law. In the peugj code it is proposed to abolish corporal punish- meet a-d working malefactors in chains. Constantinople telegram states that Omar j _c_i» bas reported ...

... The accounts from Australia by the present mail irdicate that the supply of wheat and flour in all the colonies will be unusually great. Already, in the period between the Ist of January and the 18 th of May, the exports from Port Adelaide to England had amounted to 87,621 quarters of wheat and 512 tons of flour, and larger quantities would be shipped in the event of any upward movement in ...

... MONDA F.— Before Jambs Weight and GoD»_r HxATsTCora, Esqrs. George Heaps, chair maker, 25, Chesterfield, was charged with obstructing the highway and assaulting Police-constable Briggs in the execution of his duty, on Sunday. — Fined £1 and costs, or 21 days. Edward Waterhouse, farmer, Brampton, was charged with using threatening language to Charles Jones, ironmonger, Chesterfield, on the 22nd ...

... Saturday, this somewhat remarkable case, which On oa J\ £}— , e8 adjourned, was fully gone into ?? Jlted at the BakeweU Town HaU, the ma- -2f present being W. Longsdon, Esq., Capt. Fox, Darwin, Esq , M.D. The defendant is a young ** most respectably connected, named John Francis ■*£ an d the charge against him was for maliciously A unlawfully wounding John Hattersley, at Hather- *° . on the i ...